Patient safety

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29 May 2008

DH funds collaborative ICT research

Information and Communications technology features in five of the seven partnerships which are receiving a share of the £64m research
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22 May 2008

Over a million patients seen without records

A poll of NHS acute trusts indicates over 1.2m outpatients in England are seen each year without the clinician having
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1 May 2008

Trafford gets Cameron’s vote

Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust tell EHI how their BT e-Health Insider award caught David Cameron's eye.
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1 May 2008

McKesson launch whiteboard monitoring system

McKesson’s Horizon Enterprise Visibility McKesson has launched its Horizon Enterprise Visibility product – a whiteboard style system that provides real
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29 April 2008

Scottish doctors angry over e-health cuts

Doctors at the Scottish BMA conference have expressed concerns over the Scottish government’s decision to cut £5m from the e-health
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24 April 2008

CfH says patient safety work has progressed

Connecting for Health has worked hard to ensure its clinical software design meets patient safety requirements after a review conducted
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23 April 2008

CfH buys 7,500 wipe-clean keyboards

Connecting for Health has purchased 7,500 wipe-clean keyboards as part of a new initiative to help keep IT equipment infection
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21 April 2008

Readers’ insight into e-prescribing needed…

EHI is calling for readers to provide their views on the development of acute e-prescribing to inform a round table
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10 April 2008

Bolton moves to online pharmacy system

Actor Dave Spikey helps launch Bolton’s new robotic dispensing system. The Royal Bolton Hospital, part of the Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust, has
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7 April 2008

Pharmacists may get access to patient care records

The government has announced it will investigate how community pharmacy access to the NHS Care Records Service could be achieved.
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